{"id":4709,"title":"Ithaca Video Project Projections 1974-1976","kind":"biblio","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/summary-and-chronology-1974-1976-1998","version":"573b3a3e42b805a2d586413856bf5c0022a1fbb88531f59d651669cbb932895a","modified":"2026-09-13T21:52:08.1952752+00:00","credits":[{"role":"Author","name":"Philip Mallory Jones"}],"authorKeys":["Pamela Susan Hawkins"],"subjects":["Groups"],"metadata":[{"label":"Publisher","value":"unpublished paper","url":null},{"label":"ETC archive","value":"ETC0503","url":null},{"label":"Group dates","value":"1971 - 1984","url":null},{"label":"Group location","value":"Ithaca, New York","url":null},{"label":"Group","value":"Ithaca Video Project","url":null}],"citations":{"page":"\u0022Summary and Chronology ( 1974, 1976, 1998).\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2026. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/summary-and-chronology-1974-1976-1998.","publication":"Philip Mallory Jones. 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Annual Ithaca Video Festival 1975-84. Festival began to tour in 1976. The intended name of the organization was Ithaca Video Project; when applying for non-profit status, the name was changed erroneously to Ithaca Video Projects. Both names appear in many texts. The organization served as a media resource facility for the Ithaca region, providing workshops in photography, video, animation and graphic design, along with equipment loans and access to post-production facilities. IVP also provided production assistance to other artists. IVP initiated the Ithaca Video Festival, a juried program of video, selected from entries from around the world. The Festival was at first screened locally at the Herbert Johnson Museum but traveled widely around the State and nationally. IVP was also committed to animation, which was used in dramatic and documentary productions. The approach combined video, film and photographs using computer-based video technology to achieve frame-by-frame compositions. IVP produced series concerning Afro-Americans in the US and Caribbean. According to the Citizens Media Directory, National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting, (1977), in 1977 IVP\u0027s \u0022primary activity is the production of videotapes and films for television broadcast. It also maintains a media resource center to assist other professional artists in the production of film and video projects\u0022. Philip Mallory Jones alone and in collaboration with other makers, produced a number of important tapes which received wide distribution and broadcast. \u0022In various ways, we make portraits. We don\u0027t like to call our work documentaries. Our tapes are as subjective as a portrait. Our work tends to be our interpretation of people and events. We don\u0027t make a pretense of being objective\u0022. Philip Mallory Jones (10) Chronology of Ithaca Video Project 1971-1974 Ithaca Video Project incorporated in 1971. In an Ithaca Video Projects\u0027 brochure from prior to 1974, IVP describes its mission: \u0022a not-for-profit, educational organization that provides access to portable video tape equipment, consultation and instruction in the creative uses of the video medium. We encourage individuals and community groups to initiate projects of all types - issue-oriented, artistic, experimental. An important part of our program is the development of a two-way communications system where members of the greater Ithaca area can engage in public dialogues via the local cable TV system. At IVP, we work to make access to video and related media a reality for people who have traditionally been denied expression through electronic media. Finally we see video as an art form. IVP is rapidly becoming the foundation for a wide range of collaborations between artists and experiments in various media.\u0022 The program offered: Video Storefront for equipment access, operational workshops, editing and production studio, and a tape library (for loan dubbing and international tape exchange); Video Projections, \u0022public seminars on the imaginative and effective use of video and complimentary media\u0022; Multi-Media Performances in which \u0022video artists collaborate with artists in film, dance, music, poetry and graphics\u0022; Videomation, a technology of creating moving images developed by Phillip Mallory Jones \u0022which is a synthesis of electronic, film and graphic images into a multi-level composite image. This technique, which is analogous to the basic characteristics of African drumming and singing, is being used in film/tape on black music\u0022; Traveling Multi-Media Events to create \u0022environments which expose people to new and stimulating relationships between video, film, poetry, dance, music and graphics.\u0022 Videotapes: Onondagas vs. New York State. 23:00 The \u0022Bust\u0022 of Timothy Leary 35:00 the view of the Black Panther Party In the Event Anyone Disappears 45:00 corrections officers Junk 30:00 heroin addiction Poultry Waste Management 13:30 Cornell University work Canadarago Lake 30:00 water pollution Kick 25:00 junkies Three Poems by Neal Spitzer 8:00 visual realization of poetry IVP\u0027s staff was Phil Jones, Arts and Program Director; Joe Seale, Administrative Director; David Way, Arts and Communications; James Novack, Technical Director; Jon Reis, Community Activities; and Sue Grandon, Arts Director. The Ithaca Video Project was partially funded by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. 1974-1975 A 1974 brochure from 1975-75 adds other programs: Commissioned Video Production included concept, production, post-production and distribution Advertising and Public Relations media for presentations; graphic design and layout Systems Design and Consultation International Media Production crew and equipment for location productions Tapes tape and film catalogue listed works available for free in studio playback, international tape exchange and tape and film rental. Tapes included: After the Mountains, More Mountains Canadarago Lake, produced by Phil Wilde Commentary on Black Graduate Education Directions in Afro-American Art: Exhibition at Herbert F. Johnson Museum Drug Laws: A student View Feedback - A Cognitive Centering Device In the Event Anyone Disappears, produced by Third World Newsreel Junk Kick, produced by James Sheldon La Citadelle: Haiti\u0027s Eighth \u0027Wonder\u0027 Lesbian Mothers produced by Norma Pontes and Rita Moreira, Queer Blue Light Movable Type - A Media Poetry Show Onondaga Nation vs. New York State: A Question of Sovereignty Owl Creek Stone Cold Mountain Owl Creek Stone Minstrels Philly Folk Festival, produced by Reading Community Workshop St. Louis Blues Videomation, by Philip Mallory Jones The Bust of Timothy Leary Tides: A Media Expansion TV Graphics produced by Educational Television Center, Cornell University Zobo Funn Band Films available were A Moment of Harmony Marijuana Don\u0027t Grow in Harlem No Place for Me The Soul of Pomona by Kevin Huart Omen; Star Garden; Tides by Philip Mallory Jones. Personnel are listed as: Philip Mallory Jones, Director; Joseph A. Seale, Administrator; Yvonne Brown, Administrative Assistant; James Novack, Technical Director; David Way, Production Coordinator; Frank Goto, Production Assistant; Gunilla Musselman, Art Director; Jon Reis, Photographer; Kevin Huart, Filmmaker; Rick Blake, New York City Representative; and Fred Mangones, Carribean Representative. 1974 - 1976 IVP indicates that initial growth has led to a wide range of collaborations between artists and others in the community. \u0022We are literally on the brink of making a serious impact on the local cable system, developing wider distribution via PBS.\u0022 One major goal was to advance the video capability to \u0022full \u00BD\u0022 and 1\u0022 color origination and editing\u0022. It was noted that 1\u0022 stability was necessary for the wider distribution plans IVP was developing. The Videomation program was also noted, along with a need by that program for substantial equipment upgrades in the area of interface systems allowing IVP to combine film and video formats. A new project was defined, entered jointly with the Ministry for the Preservation of National Monuments in Haiti. \u0022This project entails doing a feasibility study on establishing a video production center in Port-au-Prince, and producing a pilot program. The pilot will document the Ministries efforts to restore the Citadel of Henri Cristophe, built during the Haitian Revolution. The restoration project is being directed by Frederick Mangones, native Hairian and one of the founders of Ithaca Video Project.\u0022 -Ithaca Video Project Projections 1974-1976 document 1980 In a 1980 article published in The Independent Fran Platt with Ann Volkes and Gerry Pallor wrote, \u0022Picturesque Ithaca, perched on a hillside at the foot of Cayuga Lake, is known to most people as the home of Cornell University. But there\u0027s video magic afoot downtown: the Ithaca Video Projects [IVP] -- production aid for most professional video artists, and the prestigious Ithaca Video Festival. A large, airy, carpeted studio with a fine mountain view is located within a short walk of Ithaca\u0027s commercial center, upstairs from a well equipped arts supply store. [In the 80\u0027s,] IVP\u0027s 3/4\u0022 cassette editing system [could] be rented at a rate of $50/day. 24-hour access [was] available; and the tension of a long, grueling editing session [could] be alleviated by a round or two at the ping-pong table. The latter amenity typifies Phil and Gunilla\u0027s warm, informal style and personalized concern for their clients. In the past, the Production Aid Program [had] mainly served local cultural organizations, on a commission basis, but clients from outside the Finger Lakes region and even out-of-state [were] actively sought. If a proposal [was] particularly interesting and lack[ed] sufficient funding, services - concept development, 3/4\u0022 portable production equipment, crew, supplies and/or rough editing - may [have been] provided gratis. Phil and Gunilla often work[ed] with performing artists, and they look forward to expanding their studio space to accommodate dance and theatre companies.\u0022 (1) Ithaca Video Projects, Inc.\u0027s staff in 1980 was composed of Philip Mallory Jones, Executive Producer and Debra Schweitzer, Associate Producer. 1981 A brochure (c1981) lists the following activities: Media Center - equipment access, editing, workshops Production services - full professional services for broadcast, cable or closed-circuit IVP Productions - original fiction and documentary videotapes Production Aid - IVP accepts proposals for artists projects which receive equipment support if accepted Annual Ithaca Video Festival - national touring exhibition and broadcast series. Selection by panel review. Tapes Black, White and Married 58:30, 1979 interracial marriage. Produced with WNET TV Lab. In the Pictures 28:00, 1978 portrait of a choreographer Jan: Take 2 18:00, 1977 a Broadway performer\u0027s relationship with her mother The Trouble I\u0027ve Seen 10:00, 1976 impressions of black rural Georgia No Crystal Stair 12:00, 1975 montage of black music and poetry Beyond the Mountains, More Mountains 12:00, 1974 impressions of the Haitian people Staff: Philip Mallory Jones (Director), Gunilla Mallory Jones (Associate Director), David Berry (Assistant Director) 1982-1984 The description of IVP activities centers around the videotape collection described as 160 festival titles and 12 other productions, including 8 years of Ithaca Video Festival programming. Distribution of 172 titles, including festival titles, for rental or purchase. Production services and equipment access aren\u0027t offered. Beyond Video: Media Alliance Directory I, 1984 The 9th Annual Ithaca Video Festival received funding from the New York State Council on the Arts in 1982-83. Afterimage reported in February 1984 that the Festival which consisted of 22 tapes might not be circulated. 80 weeks of festival rentals had to be secured in order to meet costs; the 8th Annual Festival had booked only 75 weeks. The Festival in previous years had experienced cost overruns, which had been met with income from other projects. By Spring 1983 IVP couldn\u0027t supply promotional materials to Festival venues. NYSCA\u0027s position was that if IVP couldn\u0027t circulate the Festival, that future support wouldn\u0027t be forthcoming. In 1982-83 Ithaca Video Project had decided to initiate several new programs in the coming year and also to drop the workshop program. A new producers symposium project, a regrant program for artists, publication of a video magazine on disc called Imagine, renovation of the studio, and continuation of the annual festival were all proposed directions for IVP for 1983-84. IVP received funding from NYSCA for only the Festival and for co-sponsorship of an individual artist\u0027s project by Dan Reeves. IVP indicated that several other sources of funding which the organizatio","offset":0,"nextOffset":12000,"totalCharacters":19491,"complete":false},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}